Challenged by Perkins&Will leadership to be bold, brave and brilliant, the team guided the vision for the design of their founding studio to follow this ethos. The goal was to create a responsive studio that adapts to users’ needs while addressing business goals.
The resulting design provides a mix of active, quiet, social, private, collaborative, and restorative spaces to accommodate diverse work styles, personalities, and respective projects and tasks. Along with the availability of different spaces comes the permission to work in a more mobile, less static, fashion.
Perkins&Will home in the north tower of Chicago’s iconic Wrigley Building reflects their culture, showcasing their myriad accomplishments while allowing the design process to shine.
Paired with a multi-floor design (anchored by a grand central staircase), movement is enabled around the studio, and sit-stand desks support changing postures. The studio shifts the balance of space from private offices to both open and closed collaboration spaces, with a 33% increase in total collaboration seats from the previous studio.
The upper floor, named The Cloud, is a light-filled open café environment for work and social collaboration.
